ted 演講-永不放棄(中英對照版)

1、Never Never ever ever give give up up It?s the fifth time I stand on this shore, the Cuban shore, looking out at that horizon, believing, again, that I?m going to make it. All the way across that vast, dangerous wilderne

2、ss of an ocean. Not only have I tried four times, but the great swimmers in the world have been trying since 1950, and it?s still never been done. The team is proud of our four attempts. It?s an expedition of some 30 peo

3、ple. Bonnie is my best friend and head handler, who somehow summons will, that last drop of will within me, when i think it?s gone, after many ,many hours and days out there. 這是我第十五次站在這片古巴海灘上，望著遠處的地平線，我再次相信，我會成功跨越這片浩瀚、危

4、險的海中荒漠。不僅僅是我都嘗試了四次失敗，世界上其他偉大的游泳健將，自從 1950 年以來就開始嘗試了，而至今還沒有人可以做到。我和我的團隊嘗試了四次，團隊由 30 人組成，伯尼是我最好的朋友，也是我的首席訓(xùn)練師，她總能在我要放棄的時候喚醒我心底最后的力量，很長時間來一直如此。 The shark expert is the best in the world--large predator below. The box jellyfi

5、sh, the deadliest venom in all of the ocean, is in these waters, and I have come close to dying from them on a previous attempt. The conditions themselves, besides the sheer distance of over 100 miles in the open ocean t

6、he currents and whirling eddies and the Gulf Stream itself, are the most unpredictable of all of planet Earth. 我們有世界上最好的鯊魚專家——大型捕食殺手就在水底游蕩， 這片水域里的箱型水母，擁有海洋里最致命的毒液，在這片海洋，這片水域里。之前一次的嘗試就差點斃命于此。這里的水域條件，除了海面超過 100 英里的直線距離，水

7、流、渦流和墨西哥灣暖流，所有的條件都是這個地球上最不可預(yù)知的。 And by the way it?s amusing to me that journalists and people before these attempts often you know ask me,” Well, are you going to go with any boats or any people or anything?” And I?m t

8、hinking, what are they imaging ? That I?ll just sort of And when Iturned 60, it wasn?t so much about the athletic accomplishment , it wasn?t the ego of “i want to be first.” That?s always there and it?s undeniable. But

9、it was deeper. It was , how much life is there left? Let?s face it, we?re all on a one-way street, aren?t we, and what are we going to do? What are we going to do as we go forward to have no regrets looking back? What ar

10、e we going to do o have no regrets looking back as we go forward. life is full of obstacles and the only way to realize your dream is to overcome them. 生活充滿障礙，實現(xiàn)夢想的唯一途徑就是克服夢想 當(dāng)我六十歲的時候，夢想不再主要和體育成就有關(guān)，也沒有了“我要當(dāng)?shù)谝弧钡哪欠N自我實現(xiàn)，它一直

11、在那兒，無可抗拒。但它更深，是關(guān)于生命還剩下多少時間。 讓我們直面生活吧，我們都在人生的單程路上，不是么？那我們要做什么呢，我們要做什么才能在回首時無怨無悔呢？ And all the past year in training, I had that Teddy Roosevelt quote to paraphrase it, floating all around in my brain, and it?s said,” You

12、go ahead, you go ahead and sit back in your comfortable chair, and you be the critic, you be the observe, while the brave one gets the in the ring and engages and get bloody and gets dirty and fails over and over and ove

13、r again, but yet isn?t afraid and isn?t timid and lives life in a bold way.” And so of course I want to make it across. It?s the goal, and I should be so shallow to say that this year, destination was even sweeter than t